The nice thing is, you can talk to your admin about not federating with them! Just because the protocol is open doesn’t mean the door needs to be, too.

Dunno about the UK, but the US is going guns blazing towards Robocops.

Ironically, police probably think they’ll be in charge of the robots, rather than the robots replacing them.

Sounds like “we need to have guns if they have guns.” Might be right in the short term, but at what future cost?

Tutanota is a common recommended alternative, (which is now just called “Tuta”).

Yes, that. Those monsters.

How could they not think of the other companies’ poor shareholders?

How much longer is this “supply chain” problem going to go on for?

The supply chain was fixed at least by 2022, according to someone I know who works for an economic think tank. What we’re experiencing is greedflation and what happens when people pick monsters to be in charge.

I hear you can make a lightning cannon from some giant capacitors…

New research digs into why batteries in electronics don’t last as long as they did when they were brand new.

The research is kinda interesting, but it’s silly to call it new. It’s ongoing for as long as there is a benefit to improving batteries, and they didn’t find anything particularly illuminating other than heat being generated by other components, which in turn damages the batteries over time.

This should go without saying, but don’t use company devices for your personal stuff, whether they’re private, public, or federal. Somebody is always watching, and some manager with a chip on their shoulder will be more than happy to avail themselves of the bossware inevitably installed on there.

It was pretty funny. Reminds me of that satire campaign against smoke detectors.

Yes. In fact, it’s long past time, and it’s already been done countless times before; nobody seems to be listening. People have been pointing to growing authoritarian States for years, and yet the entire globe seems to be all-in on giving police states another try (or are so privileged they don’t care).

Time to take back your privacy yourself. Hopefully this article will reach some normies who didn’t give it any other thought.

I guess requiring 4 of these for 600 watts would highlight how ridiculous the power draw of the 5090 is.

I like the way you think.

This is why I don’t feel too strongly about people that buy first-batch hardware. They’re the QC for the rest of us!

I got a dime. Also, the monkey’s paw just curled another finger, but that’s not important.

I think it’s a fair point to wrinkle our noses at and scrutinize some if those companies, but we should evaluate the thing, not just who supports it. Many companies will support good efforts, just because it gives them good PR (or a tax write-off). We don’t know what kind of legwork the project founders did to persuade some of those big names (and they have a lot more than just those sponsors on their site.)

That said, I also don’t see any codebase. What is there to inspect and validate? What is “open?” As far as I can tell, as of now, it’s just a $27mil effort with the concept of a plan.

I’ve set up several distros on VMs lately (CachyOS, Bazzite, EOS, PikaOS, NixOS, and more), and Endeavor has one of the absolute best installation and onboarding experiences.

Something about it just feels so polished, though keep an eye on PikaOS. They’ve got some great UX people on their team.

“By Jove.”

Sounds like someone needs to go back to AI school. (/j)

Sounds like we want the same thing, except I think it’s perhaps too high of an expectation to have a CPA that can do both financial accounting and cryptography.

As far as I know Meta only collects and abuses data it get’s from people where there are now laws in place to prevent it (so why wouldn’t they do it).

Unfortunately, in practice, the laws don’t seem to mean much to the wealthy.

Like other gigantic companies that have billions of dollars, it’s easier and more profitable to ask forgiveness than permission; paying legal fines that are 0.01% of their overall profits is just the cost of doing business. Zuck has been caught on multiple occasions skirting the law (see the most recent revelation of them surreptitiously leeching scores of books from Anna’s Archive and a previous one of partnering with Cambridge Analytica, for example).

I’m all good with having companies submit to hostile financial audits, but I’m not sure how a CPA would be qualified to validate security or privacy. Code security audits should be done by cryptographic experts, and I think you would need both.

Perhaps one day, we’ll have Certified Public Cryptographers that have a fiduciary duty to ensure people are secure or private.

Of course not. My point was that these wealthier-than-god goobers just throw money at anything with the term “AI” attached with abandon, and that seems like a better road to relative wealth than playing the lottery.